Granny's Birthday/ Bad flight

Dear Caylee,
This weekend you got to go on an airplane. It was Granny’s 80th birthday and we went to Alabama to go to her party. Almost all of your cousins and second cousins were there. There were a lot of kids!!

After the party we went to Mimi and Paw-Paw’s house in Florida. Sydney and Conner came to stay for a night too. You stayed up really late on Saturday night playing with everyone.

Sunday we got to go to the beach with everyone. You had a great time playing in the sand and in the water. You called the waves “big huna’s (big Kahunas.) Paw-Paw took you out in the ocean to play in the waves. You really like your uncle Kerry. You still call him Dad and you wanted to play with him a lot. At one point in the swimming pool you told me to go away because you wanted to play with Dad.

Riding on the planes for you was fun …for the most part. On the first leg of the flight over you were a really good girl, people on the plane were commenting on how good you were. You were a good girl in the airport of the lay-over, but you started to get really tired right before we boarded the second plane.

When you ran out of chips the terror started. You threw the biggest fit I have ever seen. It was the kind of fit that other kids throw, but not MINE!!! You were screaming and crying and arching your back. You were swinging at me and hitting my face. There was nothing to calm you down! So many people tried to help the flight attendant tried to give you candy or snacks, the little girl next to you tried to talk to you, a very nice little girl in the seat in front of you even gave you her baby doll to try to get you to calm down. The flight was slightly delayed because I could not get you in the seat and we almost got kicked off the plane!! The flight attendant had sympathy and just let me hold you until while we took off.

Shortly after we got in the air, out of nowhere, you just stopped. You stopped screaming and crying took a few deep breaths and looked right at me and said in the sweetest voice “hi momma” with a big smile on your face. It was as if you just got your body back from whatever took it over!! Not sure what really made your tantrum go quite that far, but I was really glad to have you back! You were really good on the rest of the flights, no problems at all. (whew!!)

Overall you had a really great time this weekend. It was great to get to see all of your cousins. You always have fun with them.